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I couldn't find the pins, but after a quick tutorial I managed to remove the battery etc. So that should solve that. However, the problem persists. I'm starting to think some of the hardware might just be faulty?

Updated but no dice on the original problem, unfortunately. Still freezes trying to start up the same games.

A Alright, next step is figuring out how to do that! Thanks.

Ah alright, here we go. Please let me know if there's anything else. Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) BIOS: American Megatrends Inc 1.9 05/11/2016 (this looks like it might be outdated?) Fans: ACPI Fan PSU: Corsair VS650 RAM: 2x8gb DDR4-2400 (16mhz) Corsair I'm not sure about the...

Thanks for replying! Well, I've never done anything like that, but the chap that sold it to me advised that there was software to do so, and that he had installed it. Still, I did a clean install of windows and then didn't touch anything so I don't think so. How would I check?

Hey folks, Hope you are all keeping well. As the title suggests, my PC seems to be freezing/locking up when I try to run games based on the unreal engine, to the point that I have to hard restart. I've tried a dozen or so games and this appears to be common denominator. I recently purchased...

Thanks for your replies! This one seems to have done the trick. Thanks again.

So, as the title suggests, I recently got my grubby little mits on a much larger HDD and decided to use this as my main storage/boot drive for my PC. I installed Windows 10 and set it up. I was planning to access my old HDD as external storage and move things across as needed, but I am having...

Update: I have managed to exchange the keyboard in question with another but am experiencing the same issue, albeit much less often. Curious.

Oh, well. I do have a fair bit of time at the moment, and otherwise I'm stuck with my older keyboard, but that's okay. If there's some way to fix it I'd like to chase it up, even if just out of curiousity. Otherwise yeah, seems like the consensus is that the keyboard is just borked and I'll go...

Thanks for your replies guys, I really appreciate you getting back to me so soon. USB indeed. I have tried every USB port on my PC with the same result. Might have a look to see if my USB hub doodad is still around here somewhere. Reliability History doesn't seem to contain anything of note...

Hey folks, hope you're all well today. I recently purchased a new Asena Wired Gaming Keyboard from my local supermarket and, as the title says, shortly after plugging it in my computer shuts down without warning. The keyboard does work/light up etc in the short time that the computer is active...

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Hello! Thanks for the reply. Yes it was connected through the install; I didn't think it'd be a problem. I'm not really sure how to do the Linux live CD thing. You think it's just an issue with accessing it through Windows 10? I have an older laptop with Windows 7 still on it that I could use to...

Hello everyone, I hope you're all managing well. I have recently updated my computer to Windows 10 due to the cessation of updates and so forth to Windows 7. My PC has a relatively small hard drive, and so I keep an external hard drive connected to it at all times for the purposes of storage...